Take your time, Peter

Janet Albrechtsen: If history is a guide, reports of Costello’s political death may be greatly exaggerated.

Excuse the impertinence from someone who is not a member of the hunting Canberra press gallery pack. But why is the launch of the Costello Memoirs treated as “D” day - the moment for Peter Costello to respond definitively to the media hounds and the nervous Liberal MPs barking for Liberal leadership certainty? Those unable to lift their heads from the political myopia of the 24-hour news cycle could do with a few lessons from history if only to predict the unpredictability of politics.